![]() The eight-year-old Louis Charles-Louis XVII to royalists-had clung to her skirts and was pulled off. The Jacobin extremists then seized her son. Her husband, Louis XVI, who lost his title when the monarchy was abolished, had been guillotined nine months earlier, though he was spared the indignity of riding in a tumbrel with bound hands. ![]() Some of the onlookers in the vast crowd lining the route that morning, on October 16, 1793, may have been among those screaming obscenities at her in 1789, when they marched with pikes on Versailles or axed their way, in 1792, into her apartment in the Tuileries, where they spent their fury on her mirrors and closets or waved the severed head of her friend and look-alike, the lovely Princesse de Lamballe, on a halberd outside her window. ![]() ![]() Marie Antoinette, the ex-Queen of France, was thirty-seven when she was taken from her cell in the Conciergerie, the fourteenth-century fortress on the Île de la Cité, and paraded in an open oxcart to the scaffold in the Place de la Révolution, a mile away. ![]()
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